Who defines what is considered offensive versus what is considered "cute"? Recently sisters have been up in arms with the recent Pepsi Max Super bowl commercial showing the black woman treating her boy friend like trash. The bad treatment reaches its climax, with sis throwing a can at dude. The guy ducks, and the can hits a white chick...and the black couple runs away...
This commercial got high praise in the media....except for the sisters of course...
Flash back to last year's Super Bowl, and Doritos came out with this foolishness
The same sisters I know who are raising hell about them being portrayed in the Pepsi commercial, found a commercial with a boy slapping a grown ass man, "cute"...No proposed boycotts...I don't remember seeing essence posting their thoughts on this image. I get the image of a young boy protecting his mother...but in reality, that kid would had caught a size 12 in his chest like Bruce Lee in Game of Death (Courtesy of the Great Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
After watching both commercials...I had this look
Both of these commercials are trash (along with the State Farm angry sister/simp ass dude commercial) and are the continued coonification (new word?) of the African American image. The scary thing is that these commercials were rated high on surveys and are in heavy rotation on TV right now.
So what are we going to do...probably nothing...I like doritos and pepsi...lol...and so do you...We only give them perception by the way some of us act...Until we stop being on TV acting a fool, they are going to continue portraying us like this...
Spike broke it down 10 years ago. I recommend you go rent this...
Now are you portraying the "angry" black man? I agree that society (american culture) typically down plays the strength of our men & heightens the aggression of our women. Until we hit them were its hurts the most, this type of coonification will continue. As long as you get 1 or 2 people benefiting and none to make the sacrifice.
ReplyDeleteLong live Wayne X..
Signed
The Spook that sat by the door (packing)